<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="">Coalition's schools target on foreign languages questioned
                                
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                                                                        <span class="">August 30, 2013</span>
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                                                        <p>THE Coalition's promise to have 40 per cent of school leavers 
learning a foreign language within a decade has met with scepticism. </p>
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<p>"We haven't got 14 per cent yet, I just cannot see 
that (40 per cent) could be achieved, admirable as it is as a goal," 
said Melbourne University's Jane Orton, an expert in Chinese teacher 
training. </p>
<p>About 12 per cent of Year 12 students take 
languages, on the latest figures, and the Coalition's newly released 
education policy bemoans the weak, even endangered state of some 
strategic languages, such as Indonesian.</p><p><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/election-2013/coalitions-schools-target-on-foreign-languages-questioned/story-fn9qr68y-1226706990995">http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/election-2013/coalitions-schools-target-on-foreign-languages-questioned/story-fn9qr68y-1226706990995</a><br>
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